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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 24, 2017
Filed:
Jan. 21, 2015
United Technologies Corporation, Hartford, CT (US);
Albert K. Cheung, East Hampton, CT (US);
James B. Hoke, Tolland, CT (US);
Randal G. McKinney, Ellington, CT (US);
UNITED TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION, Farmington, CT (US);
Abstract
A combustor is provided. The combustor may include an axial fuel injection system, and a radial fuel injection system aft of the axial fuel injection system. The axial fuel injection system includes a mixer having a bluff body at an exit port of the mixer, and a fuel injector disposed within the mixer. A fuel and air mixer is also provided and comprises an outer housing with an exit port and a bluff body. The bluff body extends across the exit port of the outer housing. A fuel injection system is also provided. The systems comprise a mixer having a bluff body at an exit port of the mixer and a fuel injector disposed within the mixer.